Text tax proposal a new
way to redistribute wealth

The proposed text tax is intended to help support public purpose programs, specifically in this case to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor.

In a very real sense, this is yet another example of the many ways wealth is being redistributed, without merit or true need, from the upper to the lower economic strata of our society. It has been noted by political historians that government-mandated redistribution of wealth has contributed significantly to the failure and extinction of dozens of governments throughout time.

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